Experiences with Teaching Architectures and Parallel Programming: From Construction to Evaluation
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https://doi.org/10.5753/ijcae.2023.4827Keywords:
Parallel Programming, Parallel Architectures, OpenMP, MPI, OpenACCAbstract
This work aims to share the accumulated experiences over two years in teaching a programming course within the Computer Science program at Unioeste, Cascavel campus. Throughout this paper, the journey from the curricular formulation of the course to student evaluation is outlined.
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